Nikki Locke wrote: > Bill Shupp wrote: >> Nikki Locke wrote: >>> Is there an easy way of getting qmail's SMTP server to reject invalid >>> >>> addresses at the RCPT TO stage? >>> >>> >>> It would save a lot of disk space and processing power when I'm hit with >>> thousands of spams a day. >> >> This is already setup by default with my toaster patch. It includes the >> chkuser patch, which handles this. Note that it does not bounce mail if: >> >> 1) user account or alias/mailing list exists >> 2) the smtp client has RELAYCLIENT set >> 3) the domain does not contain "bounce-no-mailbox" in .qmail-default for >> the domain. > > Thanks, Bill. > > Mine (set up according to the instructions, I believe) contained > > | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete
You must have changed this in QmailAdmin. vadddomain uses bounce-no-mailbox by default. > I changed it to bounce-no-mailbox, and that works fine. > > Where is the best documentation for all this stuff to be found? I tried "man > vpopmail" for example, and got nothing. Your toaster is excellent for getting > something working quickly, but I now feel a bit lost, as I don't really > understand how most of it works! In the vpopmail source, there is is README, and INSTALL. There are additional README files you should check out as well. Regards, Bill
